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Soooo, with Yamaha buying Kayaba...
http://www.motocrossactionmag.com/Main/News/ANOTHER-INDUSTRY-SHOCKER-YA…
...what effect if any will it have on Yamaha teams like JGR who are mostly seen running Showa forks?
http://www.motocrossactionmag.com/Main/News/ANOTHER-INDUSTRY-SHOCKER-YA…
...what effect if any will it have on Yamaha teams like JGR who are mostly seen running Showa forks?
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they also have another 15 manufacturing bases around the globe so I doubt the whole thing is going to India, suppose time will tell on that.
Wanna make money? Goto India !
Kayaba’s new suspension manufacturing plant will be built next to Yamaha's new motorcycle manufacturing plant in Chennai, India.
I've been in deals involving this type of outsourcing. The part where it says "Will not only increase product competitiveness and reduce costs, but will also contribute to improvements in innovation, technology".... This is total crap. This is the company bean counters speaking. It's the political animals inside a company making a bad decision that destroy brands while they collect a paychecks and claim to reduce costs. Yes, costs will go down. But locating this mfg plant to India will result in back biting, "not invented here" thinking (meaning the Indian engineers will fight the ideas/ concepts not invented by them) and a slow but downward slide of product quality and innovation will take place. I've seen this many times in the high tech world. Sad... short sided. Big mistake.
This is an opportunity for companies like Showa and aftermarket companies like FOX Shox's to innovate and leave KYB's motorcycle group in the dust.
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